← Fame through time1600-1699
The 17th century
Whose working lives fell in the 17th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 17th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Koxinga10 decades - 2
Tokugawa Iemitsu0 decades - 3
Tokugawa Hidetada0 decades - 4
Tokugawa Ienobu0 decades - 5
Yagyū Munenori0 decades - 6
Tokugawa Mitsukuni0 decades - 7
Tokugawa Tadanaganot measured- - 8Inoue Masashige0 decades
- 9Konoe Sakikonot measured-
- 10
Sō Yoshinarinot measured-
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.